REGIONAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION 9

On Wednesdays, we’ll introduce the talented students who make up Year 7 of High School Confidential, powered by Danville Area Community College. Next up: Urbana senior Jennifer Ar...

CHAMPAIGN — A multi-use Unit 4 facility is ready for its upgrades. The Champaign school district will spend $11.2 million of its American Rescue Plan Act funds over the next co...

URBANA — Urbana Bands’ “Room to Grow” campaign is more than halfway to its $100,000 fundraising goal, with “50,000-something” already committed, group leader and retired 30-year t...

The talented Champaign Central students involved in this week’s production of “Matilda” won’t be the only stars of the show. Decker Theatre is a big draw, too. Thursday mark...

HOMER — A lifelong educator who turned a summer job into a swim-education empire is being remembered as “a great guy” and a “second dad.” Bruce Miller of rural Homer died in hi...

As painful as the pandemic was for educators everywhere, it produced both of BRIAN BROOKS ' no-doubt-about-it favorite moments in his seven-plus years as St. Joseph-Ogden superin...

Described as “students who lead the charge” at Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School, twins Mason and Morgan Uden gave us a glimpse of their winning personality during Sunday’s “Faces o...

The best way for kindergartners to learn, teacher Kerry Hanson said, isn’t by sitting at a desk and putting pencil to paper. After more than 20 years teaching young children, i...

Likely on the way out: Unit 4’s elementary “schools of choice” model, which Superintendent Shelia Boozer this week summarized as a failed initiative that “resulted in little to no...

“That’s a mic drop,” Superintendent Jennifer Ivory-Tatum said after all seven school board members voted in favor of a package of proposals designed to lure more substitute teache...

WESTVILLE — Now that the Westville school district has been chosen to receive $5.8 million for electric school buses, Superintendent Seth Miller said the next step is evaluating w...

MAHOMET — A group of Mahomet area residents and business people toured the junior high school this week to get an idea of the overcrowding at the school. Voters will head to th...

CHAMPAIGN — As he stood in front of around 60 community members Tuesday night in the gymnasium of Garden Hills Academy, David Sturtz wasn’t surprised by the tenor of response he a...

URBANA — A committee of Urbana school district teachers, parents and administrators recommended that the district consolidate its two-school elementary English-Spanish dual-langua...

URBANA — The way Urbana High School senior Amari Johnson sees it, all students should get a chance to visit with representatives from historically Black colleges and universities ...

After beginning her career in education 26 years ago as a substitute teacher and teacher’s aide, Carol Wood fell in love with working with children. She decided to return to schoo...

Sophia and Max Libman were born on the same day in December 2005. The Libman twins aren’t identical. You can tell them apart both physically and in their interests. In sport...